M. E. Allen

M. E. was born in 1839.  M. E.'s father was James Allen and her mother was Mary A. Haynes.  Her paternal grandfather was Joseph Allen and her paternal grandmother is Agnes Patterson; her maternal grandfather was Thomas J. Haynes and her maternal grandmother is Lettie Duncan. She had four brothers and four sisters, named Thomas J., James Monroe, Henry C., William E., Sarah L.E., Martha C., Nancy Caroline and Eliza Frances. She had two half-brothers named Reuben E. and Francis Marion.